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Monday, November 27, 2017

Here in the US, we had a rather long Thanksgiving weekend, where most get four days off. One might think that I would get quite a bit of miniature time in, but as it happens I was mostly busy with family and house stuff. I did get some miniatures ready for priming, as seen above, and did have a bit of time to work on polishing my cruiser designs.

D6 based on Axanar design, and the D5s on SFB.

This week I hope to finish painting my Federation ships, and get on with painting some of the figures I primed.

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Yesterday, in my post about buying some Reaper miniatures, Merijn asked about the quality of the Bones figures, and it got me to thinking about how I happen to have a duplicate figure (as a result of a mispack)

Here are a couple of quick comparison shots I took this morning. The pictures are not great, and the metal figure is partly converted, but you can see that the figure is at least in the same range of quality, with some softening around edges, possibly most prominent on the hair. Some of this is also an artifact of the photography, as white figures just do not photograph well! You can also see the level of flash on the bones figure (look at the right boot), which must be cut away, rather than sanded or scraped.

Anyway, I like the Reaper Bones figures, particularly for half the cost! Hope it is helpful to someone.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

I have been a bit off my hobby game lately for a variety of reasons, but I did manage to take advantage of the annual Reaper Halloween offer to get some miniatures that I had my eye on, as shown in the first picture. Reaper is doing a 25th anniversary miniature for each month, which I got, and the Halloween offer this year was three paints, candy, and a chance for a miniature... or a rock. Fortunately I got a miniature this year, which appears to be a ghostly figure of some sort. Reaper is a great company, and I got these on Halloween as the kids were suiting up, so it worked out nicely.

I also managed to get some priming done, which will be helpful as the weather inevitably turns to cold and dark and I manage to get some time to paint (hopefully on that second bit!)